News of the Rebekah Brooks: World is Fired!

*Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks. From Press Association/AP Images.*The clamor for Rebekah Brooks to resign as chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News International showed no signs of abating this morning. If you care to bet on her departure, the odds of it happening by the end of this month are now 70 percent, according to Smarkets. She’s famously reticent, but in case she needs to go quickly, we took a look at what she’s said in the past and put together a letter of resignation for her in her own language.

Dear Rupert,

There is nothing more rewarding than setting the news agenda with your own story.

I’m not denying we’re in a tough placewe are.

This knee-jerk tabloid kicking reaction is just dull.

The relentless negativity, this almost morbid fascination with our own demise, must stop.

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

They are certainly making us suffer unnecessarily!

Obama’s election campaign can teach us a lot. The data he already has on his supporters is immense.

We need new ways of engagementto find out everything about our supporters.

The first modern newspaper was published to general scepticism in 1609.

But four hundred years later we are still here.

But total disregard and respect for public opinion never ceases to amaze me.

Sometimes I think we need a PR.

You know this is not exactly the best time of my life.

Ok, there’s probably no-one more than you that’s at the sharp end of this, right?

The point of concern is there is just one man making the law by setting a precedent sitting on his own. In a democracy that cannot be good for society.

Eventually it will come out why things went wrong and who was responsible.